The Investment Percolator

The following comes from Scott Johnson's web log. I am interested in Drupal as a possible solution and would include http://www.rc6.org in the following list.

Cool! Themes for Drupal.

Cool! Themes for Drupal

My friend in Indonesia, Joe Friend (no joke afaik), is looking at Drupal for a project and commented on the lack of themes. He's right -- but this isn't the product, it's just an issue of themes not being created. Drupal is currently largely in use by us geekier folk and pretty themes tend not to be our priority. But it's important to understand that Drupal has a great theming architecture -- one PHP file controls all look and feel issues. So I asked www.natrak.net for examples of Dupal sites with different themes and here's the list:

http://www.tejasa.com/
http://www.debianplanet.com/ (the biggest Drupal site yet)
http://www.kerneltrap.org/
http://www.dirtbike.ws/http://www.fuzzball.org/
http://www.fuzzball.org/
http://www.natrak.net/
http://iaslash.org/

[The FuzzyBlog!]

Process logging?.

Brett Morgan is talking about KM and blogging integration (k-logging) being the next wave of tools. You bet. Or rather I bet. I'm betting the farm on it.

Here's a thing... How about process-logging.

Every workflow process produces an RSS output stream commenting on the state of the process and events that occur. If you're interested in how the process is going you subscribe.

Are any of the open source workflow packages looking at RSS integration?

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Well from the post below it seems the tools to execute on this business plan are being created as I speak.

SharedOutline: an Attempt at Outliner Collaboration. Paolo is playing with eVectors' last creation. SharedOutline creates an ouline where several collaborators may add contents (outline nodes) simultaneously. [read more] [s l a m]

I am interested in hearing from other people who are wishing to develop applications for both professional and amateur investors using Radio Userland.

The main opportunities I see at this time are:

1. Developing a company specific Instant Outliner that could be subscribed to. In essence I am looking to create a "living" research report.

2. Allowing companies to implement Radio Userland sites that people could subscribe to follow not only news releases but also product announcements etc.

3. Developing XML-RPC calls that could parse SEC documents and return requested information. Very similar to what 10K Wizard currently offers.

My inspiration came from Yahoo Message Boards. However upon reading the Steven Johnson interview on the O'Reilly Network the basis of this idea relies on his explanation of "Emergence" whish is as follows:

Emergence is what happens when the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts. It's what happens when you have a system of relatively simple-minded component parts -- often there are thousands or millions of them -- and they interact in relatively simple ways. And yet somehow out of all this interaction some higher level structure or intelligence appears, usually without any master planner calling the shots. These kinds of systems tend to evolve from the ground up..

I think there are numerous opportunities with this platform. I am hoping to find people who share this vision.